I moved to Northmoor forty five years ago. Our house was built on the site of the old brickworks, which was surrounded by the rest of the houses that were here, and I think most of them were occupied by people working in the brickworks. It was a very local business and lots of clay pits around in this area were used to provide the raw materials for the bricks. That closed, I believe, somewhere around 1930.

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